Polygamy: Europe's Hidden Statistic

The sheer volume of polygamous marriages shows that such marriages are also entered into in Europe, in secret, through Islamic marriage ceremonies conducted by imams. In most European countries, imams are not required to report these marriages to the authorities.

Daham Al Hasan fled from Syria to Denmark, leaving behind his three wives and 20 children. Under the Danish rules of family unification, one of his wives and eight of his children have joined him in Denmark. But Al Hasan wants all his children with him, as well as all his wives. Lawyers estimate that the remaining wives will be able to join their children in Denmark. The case has caused a shock not only because of what it will cost the Danish state just in child allowance, but because Al Hassan claims that he is too ill to work or even learn Danish. "I don't only have mental problems, but also physical problems..." He has admitted that his "mental illness" consists of missing the children he voluntarily left behind.

Even if theoretically women can go to the police or press charges, they run the risk of being beaten or possibly divorced. Women's shelters are "full of Muslim women."

The spokeswoman of Germany's Federal Employment Agency said that the establishment of a central registry of Islamic marriages would be helpful for investigating claims of fraud.

A few years ago, Sweden's Center Party, one of the four parties in the center-right governing coalition at the time, proposed legalizing polygamy. The idea caused outrage; the proposal was dropped. The party's youth division, however, refused to let go: "We think it is important for the individual to decide how many people he or she wants to marry," said Hanna Wagenius, head of Center Youth, predicting that polygamy would be legal in ten years, when her generation would enter parliament and make sure of it.

Sweden is not the only place in Scandinavia where "idealistic" youths have advocated polygamy. In 2012, the youth division of Denmark's Radikale Venstre Party ("Radical Left"), then part of the governing coalition in Denmark, also proposed that polygamy should be legalized in Denmark. The move came four years after an Iraqi asylum seeker, who had worked for the Danish military in Iraq as a translator and then fled to Denmark, arrived with two wives. As Denmark does not recognize bigamy and as he refused to divorce his second wife, he returned to Iraq. "It is unacceptable that we are so narrow-minded in Denmark, and will not help a man who has helped us. We want to do something about that," Ditte Søndergaard, head of Radikale Venstre Youth, said at the time. The proposal, however, did not find favor with any of the other political parties.

As far-fetched as these proposals may sound, they signify the shifts taking place in the West regarding fundamental ethical issues of gender equality and the willingness to accommodate Islamic sharia law. They are also proof of an enduring willful blindness to the detrimental effects of the practice of polygamy, not only in terms of financial costs to the state, but also to the Muslim women and children, whose rights these young politicians purport to support.

Muslim polygamy is only rarely debated in the media. The practice, therefore, despite its spread across the European continent -- spanning, among other countries, Sweden, Denmark, the UK, Germany, France and the Netherlands -- continues largely to hide under the public radar. As the practice is illegal across the continent and therefore not supposed to exist, there are no official statistics of polygamous marriages anywhere in Europe.

Several countries, such as the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden and France, nevertheless recognize Muslim polygamous marriages if they were contracted abroad under certain circumstances, such as if polygamy is legal in the country where the marriage took place. It is estimated that as many as 20,000 polygamous Muslim marriages exist in Britain. In France, as polygamy was legal until 1993, the minimum estimate as early as 2006 was around 20,000 polygamous marriages. In Germany, it was estimated in 2012 that, in Berlin alone, 30% of all Arab men were married to more than one wife.

In April, Swedish professor Göran Lind argued that it was time to "put one's foot down" regarding polygamy in Sweden, after it was disclosed that Sweden had recognized "hundreds" of polygamous marriages contracted abroad. Professor Lind pointed out that polygamy is not compatible with Swedish law, especially the principles of equal treatment of spouses, the equality of all human beings, and the prohibition against discrimination on the basis of gender, as codified in the European Convention on Human Rights. One might add to those the principles enshrined in the UN's Convention on the Elimination of All Discrimination Against Women, article 16, according to which,

"States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in all matters relating to marriage and family relations and in particular shall ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women:

"(a) The same right to enter into marriage;

"(b) The same right freely to choose a spouse and to enter into marriage only with their free and full consent."

Considering how much time leading European politicians spend on assuring their electorates of their dedication to human rights, their tacit acceptance of these glaring violations of women's rights, as enshrined in the above conventions, which polygamy constitutes, is rather peculiar.

The sheer volume of polygamous marriages, however, attests to the fact that such marriages are also entered into in Europe, in secret, through Islamic marriage ceremonies conducted by imams. In most European countries, imams are not required to report these marriages to the authorities. Therefore, despite the probable knowledge of the authorities, this illegal practice is basically allowed to flourish unhindered. As Islamic marriage does not legally exist in Europe, the woman entering into the union is left legally stranded and vulnerable with no means -- other than the local imam or sharia council -- of getting out of the marriage. Even if women can theoretically go to the police or press charges, they run the risk of being beaten or possibly divorced. Women's shelters are "full of Muslim women," as Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who worked in them, attests.

Polygamous Muslim marriages are bound to become an even bigger problem in the wake of the migrant crisis.

In Denmark these days, Daham Al Hasan is making headlines. He has twenty children with three wives, but two years ago fled alone from Syria to Denmark, and left his wives and children behind. Recently, under the Danish rules of family unification, one of his wives and eight of his children have joined him in Denmark. But Al Hasan wants all his children with him, as well as all his wives. He has been granted permission for nine additional children to join him, but as Denmark does not allow polygamy, the two remaining wives, under the same rules of family unification, are not permitted to join him. Lawyers, however, estimate that the remaining wives will also be able independently to join their children in Denmark, once they are there.

The case has caused rather a shock in Denmark, not only because of the extraordinary size of the family, and what it will cost the Danish state just in child allowance, but because Al Hassan claims that he is too ill to work or even to learn Danish. "I don't only have mental problems, but also physical problems", he says by way of explanation, "My back and my legs hurt." He has admitted that his "mental illness" consists of missing the children he voluntarily left behind. This means that he and his family live exclusively off the Danish taxpayers' money.

What is noteworthy about the current debate, however, is what is not being debated: namely that Al Hassan is a polygamist. While it is only natural that politicians and citizens feel violated and aggrieved about the financial costs to the Danish state, they should be equally concerned about the practice of polygamy. Yet not a single Danish feminist has spoken out about it.

In the television documentary, "Sharia in Denmark", several imams recorded on a secret camera answered in the affirmative and without the least hesitation the question of whether a woman's husband was allowed to take another wife against his first wife's wish. For them, in fact, despite the fact that they live in a country where bigamy and polygamy are prohibited, for a man to take a second, third or fourth wife regardless of what any of them thought, seemed perfectly natural.

A qualitative study about Muslim women in Denmark from 2009, performed by Tina Magaard for the Danish Ministry of Welfare, documented the practice of polygamy among Danish Muslims. One Turkish woman told the interviewers:

"A growing group of women marries a man who is already married. They get married by an imam because then they become more accepted. Apparently, they have no alternative. They become ostracized if they were divorced and are on their own. Many would rather live a life where they get an identity -- then they belong somewhere and then they are accepted. And it is sad that it exists in Denmark. I think if they could count the numbers, which is very difficult, they are probably much higher than we think."

"This [polygamy] is something that I have really seen a lot of, there was a period when it became fashionable. I think it was five or six years ago, it was crazy, I think almost every second couple I knew, the man got himself an extra wife. But then, after a year or so, he regretted it or he divorced the first wife. I actually think there were twelve from my circle of friends where the husband got himself another wife."

In a German documentary from 2013, the journalists found that Muslim men used polygamy as a means to commit fraud and obtain more welfare benefits. The tactic was to have their wives claim at the Employment Center that they were single women who did not know the father of their children. The story works because Germany, like other European countries, has no way of ascertaining the existence of an Islamic marriage, especially as German law does not obligate women to inform the authorities of their marital status.

In the film, the journalists asked the spokeswoman of the Federal Employment Agency -- the supervisor of the local Employment Agencies responsible for paying out welfare benefits -- whether the Federal Employment Agency was aware of the many instances of fraud. The woman said that they were indeed aware of the polygamy and the ensuing fraud and even enumerated the places where it was rife: large cities in Western Germany, such as Berlin, Cologne and Frankfurt. The journalist then asked the woman why nothing was being done about it. "I believe these cultural differences are very sensitive, we are a very tolerant country," the woman said. Asked whether the Federal Employment Agency was perhaps too tolerant, the woman said that indeed she herself was wondering how it will all end.

The woman then said that the establishment of a central registry of Islamic marriages would be most helpful and desirable, as it would make possible investigating claims of fraud; but that this was a matter for the politicians.

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25 Reader Comments

I wonder if the enlightened though somewhat ignorant Leftists campaigning for polygamy actually have a clue what the word means.

Polygamy is when a person has multiple spouses; that is, a man has more than one wife or a woman has more than one husband.

Polygyny, which is the Islamic practice, is when a man has multiple women.

It would be interesting to see how "peaceloving" Muslims would react to a polygamous society, one that allows Muslim women to have multiple husbands.

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The Snail • Jun 6, 2016 at 15:24

'The Golden Rule' is endorsed by many philosophies and Religions, and over a long period of time. i.e Most of them are expressed in the negative " What you would not be done to you, do not do to others" (Rabbi Hillel ,Philo of Alexandria, Isocrates the Orator, The Stoics and Confucius)Jesus said the same thing but in the positive "Do to others what you would have them do to you". The Golden Rule has inspired many people, of all faiths and none, down the centuries to do good for humanity.

There is no equivalent to the 'Golden Rule' within Islamic theology - except perhaps to other Muslims. However, even if this exists, it is countermanded by the concept of polygamy i.e A Muslim can have up to four wives. As males and females are born in roughly equal proportions, then if a man has four wives, he has deprived three other men of a wife. So doing "to someone else what you would not want done to you" is not being carried out by this action of having up to four wives, is a fundamental part of the religion of Islam.

But what are those men, whose potential wives have been taken by a polygamist, to do?

A number of potential possibilities appear to be available:

1. Have a same sex relationship - forbidden with the death penalty in Sharia (Islamic)law .

3. Become a jihadi and a martyr - death in action or suicide bomber - getinstant gratification with 72 virgins in the afterlife.

4. Chase after very young girls not of the same age - seems to happen all over.Allowed under Islam. Mo married a 6 year old when he was in his fifties -consumated the marriage when she was 9 years old.

5. Take women from other non-muslim communities e.g Christian and Jazidi etc. - happening in many countries in middle east and other locations

Any other suggestions folks?

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Hartmut Brocharski The Snail • Jun 7, 2016 at 11:04

The worst part is that not only are no records of Imam marriages existing but as of 2013 German Agencies are not even legally entitled to question the background of Muslim women's claim of unemploiment or welfare benefits. This initiative was mainly lobbied by the politically left back then with the intent of depriving authorities of any initiative of countering systematic abuse.

As a consequence a considerable portion of the male Muslim population (an estimated 30% in Berlin alone) is running 2-4 marriages with 1-4 children each - all on taxpayer's expense. Also this strongly accelerates the imbalance in birth rates in favor of the Muslim population since almost 40% of children under age 12 in Germany are born with a migrant background.

Like it or not with this development continuing apace the ethnic German population is predicted to grow into minority within the next 30-40 years, bringing along a potential shift in the legal system (towards Sharia law) and growing assimilation of the ethnic population. Latter can be expected particulary for the female one since on top of it predominantly newly arriving male migrants will go for them in first place.

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Nancy M. Albert The Snail • Nov 24, 2017 at 14:10

By the roughly equal number of boys and girls born, the tyranny of math means polygamy requires hatred of 'others', so the sex-starved bachelors of each generation can raid, loot, burn and take women. This happened in Mohammed's days, when only senior military had wives, while the grunts had to forcibly take women or have their DNA erased from society. So Mohammed sanctioned scorched earth tactics and at the same time invented the fastest expanding warrior and mercenary social structure imagined. I give him credit for this, as Satan's answer to Jesus. While he succeeded in degrading humanity to an artless, heartless desultory existence, I don't think he realized the threat of inbreeding when the men's DNA tree led upwards to fewer and fewer contributors. Even shepherds knew better.

So, I beg academics, religious leaders (our clueless Pope) and our political leaders to have the courage to denounce this practice of gonadal supremacy that even God must have wept over and could not stop. It doesn't have to be denouncing a religion; It's science. Pure social and genetic science. It's the central force of human abasement packaged into satiating male sexual desire and subjugating all others to satisfy it. Look at how the Ottomans were pacified when polygamy was outlawed in Turkey. Look at the xenophobia, wife-beating, inbreeding, child marriages, poverty and dumping of boys by FDLS.

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Sameeer • Jun 6, 2016 at 14:26

Europeans are hard-working people who shy away from leeching on welfare but these barbarians have no shame in doing so. This is not your usual stuff.....you and your future generation will suffer. We are already suffering from Muslims since centuries. This just won't improve.

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Badger • Jun 6, 2016 at 03:01

"We think it is important for the individual to decide how many people he or she wants to marry," said Hanna Wagenius, head of Centre Youth'

And politicians in Britain think it's a good idea to give sixteen year-olds the vote?

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Mike O'Neill • Jun 5, 2016 at 18:39

Whilst social mayhem is increasing every day, so is the direct cost (welfare and housing) of supporting all the incomers. The location of 'asylum centres' in residential districts will not only introduce dangers of violence to the neighbourhood, but reduce local property values.Then there is the conversion of otherwise revenue-generating buildings, employing local people, into habitation for incomers, bringing further decline to the tax base and revenues.

If a man wants multiple 'wives' (women who genuinely wish to become such) and children and can afford to maintain them all adequately from his own efforts, there may be a case for leaving well alone. However, when that is conducted at the expense of taxpayers, the state funding must not support such activity.

I very much doubt that those supporting licence to fornicate and breed at taxpayers' expense are themselves working taxpayers, but instead come from rich and privileged backgrounds.

Europe is on the road to hell . . .

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Roderick Random • Jun 5, 2016 at 18:37

European culture hasn't got long left before it crumbles into a heap of slimy putrefaction.The stench of it's already rotting body grows stronger with every new outrage. Europe teeters on the brink of calamity because it has lost all sense of self worth, dignity and morality. It is corrupted right through from the young to the old. It is stumbling blindly up to and past the point of no return. In the end European culture will get what it has worked at so assiduously for decades, total decadence followed by subjection then dissolution. To use a rather worn analogy; it is one minute to midnight by the clock of doom.

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Harvey • Jun 5, 2016 at 16:27

Europe is lost after reading this article, new Euroistan.

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Michael Waugh • Jun 5, 2016 at 16:12

In the UK we can do without these people and their multiple marriages. Our laws call it bigamy. Keep them where they belong ie out of Europe.

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John Steele • Jun 5, 2016 at 15:02

The West takes a step back and the Muslims take a step forward and confront us again . Once again we take a step back and so it goes on until we have taken so many steps back we end up in the sea. Having spent time in Muslim countries where as a Christian I had basically no rights I can't understand how our politicians sell us out time after time. Is it any wonder the right wing is on the rise. When our elected representatives refuse to carry out the will of the people then the people will find another means of fulfilling their wishes. I foresee serious trouble in the future.

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Tommy Atkins John Steele • Jun 7, 2016 at 15:51

There will be serious trouble, there is serious trouble already in some countries. But why is the "right" always made out to be the bogey man? All the trouble in the West and all over the world has come from the left. The left is now making common cause with Islam. The "far right" is a myth invented by the left. Far right would be an intensely capitalistic, libertarian, freedom loving ideology; they would have no interest in race or creed as freedom from the state's interference would be their guiding philosophy. Hitler was a Socialist.

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Podargus • Jun 5, 2016 at 14:54

Marriage is primarily about children and their protection. The institution is currently under attack by homosexuals who demand equal rights regardless of the consequences. Polygamy has been banned in Western societies for hundreds of years for many good reasons. It is one of the reasons for the way women are downtrodden in Islamic societies. It is also one of the reasons why Islamists have high birth rates regardless of the consequences.

In Western societies women have struggled for years for the vote, equal pay etc - AKA - RESPECT. I guess that there are women of the Lunatic Left, feminists or not, who would support polygamy. Things just get curiouser and curiouser, said Alice In Wonderland. But all stories come to an end, some tragically.

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Robert Sklar • Jun 5, 2016 at 14:02

A study of polygamy in subsahel Africa showed polygamy allows for birth rates. Contrary to the idea that polygamy leaves large numbers of males without wives, polygamy in each generation provides females for the next generation of males. Honk of the large number of kidnapped school girls. The study also showed that polygamy results in a lower standard of living.

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AmericanMom • Jun 5, 2016 at 13:04

Add to the problems listed in this article the fact that many young Europeans do not marry at all or choose to have one child. The demographics of this lack of replacement of native Europeans with the fact of multiple Muslim wives having lots of children is problematic for any future of Judeo/Christian western values.

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arshad durrani • Jun 5, 2016 at 12:49

Europeans should, by now, have realized that when you admit aliens, for whatever reasons, you can't leave out their character traits.

Years ago I produced a major global cross-cultural study on human family and sexual life, using 63 different variables on over 1100 different world cultures. The section on "Polygamy" (which was exclusively "Polygyny" - one man with several wives) revealed the following correlated variables:

Infant pain-infliction is highSegregation of adolescent boys is highMale genital mutilations are presentMarital residence near male kinFather has family authorityBride price is presentExchange of female relatives is presentFemale status is inferior or subjectedBarrenness penalty is highAbortion penalty is severeSex anxiety is highCognatic kin groups are absentPatrilineal descent is presentSlavery is presentMilitary glory emphasis is highBellicosity is highNarcissism index is highInsult sensitivity is extremeHigh God active (through human representatives) in social morality

Cultures that did NOT have Polygamy-Polygyny were characterized by the opposites on all those variables.

The youth of today longing for multiple sexual partners merely express sexual frustration, not anything of great loving value, and globally polygyny is strongly characterized by various kinds of social brutality against women and children. The ethnographic variables did not include any systematic study of child-marriage or pedophilia, but readings of the anthropological literature indicates that is also predominant in cultures practicing polygyny. The abolition of polygamy's legal status was a major social reform that also ended child-marriages, arranged-marriages and other aspects of female subjugation and slavery. In the Islamic world where polygyny is predominant, women are basically slaves, and generally bought and sold into arranged marriages like donkeys or camels, and often at very young ages. We see the same in the hold-out Mormon communities where polygyny has unfortunately regained a foot-hold.
(See the book "Saharasia", 2nd Revised Ed., Natural Energy Press, p.146, 1998) http://www.amazon.com/Saharasia-Origins-Sex-Repression-Warfare-Violence/dp/0980231647

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MAK • Jun 5, 2016 at 09:23

In 2008, the Blair government gave the go-ahead for husbands with multiple wives to claim extra welfare benefits, so long as the weddings took place in countries where the arrangement is legal (as is permitted under Islamic law).
Whitehall said payments were "best practice"

Previously in 2006 Policy Exchange published accounts from extremely worried whistle-blowers, about the austere form of Islam, Whitehall had accepted as the norm and that the "policy of appeasement towards radical Islam, would have grave consequences for the future."http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/images/publications/when%20progressives%20treat%20with%20reactionaries%20-%20jul%2006.pdf

No kidding.

Take the Muslim family in Denmark mentioned above, sadly an all too typical tale;

The patriarch is on the dole and claims disability while siring a huge family -- he obviously has no intention of working or contributing or even learning the language of the country that provides for his family -- in the UK "24% of females and 21% of males claim a disability"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/london-wikileaks/8304838/UK-MUSLIM-DEMOGRAPHICS-C-RE8-02527.htmlDisability benefits are among the highest paid- purely a coincidence I'm suuuuuure.

Islamists are producing as many children as possible -- this is demographic jihad.

Polygamy funded by welfare payments occurs all over Europe- in the UK Baroness Cox's recent report talked of 100,000 polygamous marriages in the UK (with high rates of divorce), some producing as many as 20 children- how many children is that altogether one wonders?Baroness Cox: "Clearly, youngsters growing up in dysfunctional families may be vulnerable to extremism".She added that 'demography may affect democracy'.The report also reveals "shocking" examples of the impact of Sharia law on Muslim women.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/11952163/Muslim-men-having-20-children-each-because-of-polygamy-peer-claims.html

It has to STOP- but whose going to step up?Cameron's 'Conservatives' perhaps?

Cameron said he was going to change welfare rules and stop payments to polygamists, only for an official to sheepishly admit 6 months later, that polygamous marriages could get even more money under the new regulations.http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/24/wives-with-benefits-uk-immigrants-with-more-than-one-spouse-get-extra-payments-under-new-reforms/

Europeans are being conned and bullied into paying for their own demographic and cultural demise.Pro-EUrabians have the temerity to call it 'progress' when really it is a Great Leap Backwards.

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Jayell • Jun 5, 2016 at 08:36

I quote..."Daham Al Hasan fled from Syria to Denmark, leaving behind his three wives and 20 children.....But Al Hasan wants all his children with him, as well as all his wives......Al Hassan claims that he is too ill to work or even learn Danish. "I don't only have mental problems, but also physical problems..." He has admitted that his "mental illness" consists of missing the children he voluntarily left behind....."

We have quite a few words in English for the likes of Al Hasan, and a lot of them aren't very nice. Perhaps the nicest ones I can think of would be 'intolerable, insolent, inconsiderate, irresponsible, feckless scrounger'. And add to that, by his own admission, 'utterly useless waste of space'. Now, that's not very nice, is it? But it's a perfectly logical assessment of Al Hasan based on the information given. Why the devil should the good Danish people have to put up with the likes this person and his excessive human impedimenta? He's not one of them, he hasn't paid into their system in any way, they are in no way responsible for his condition or even his existence, so they don't owe him so much as a penny! Furthermore, as a bigamist he is a criminal and an affront to Danish standards sensibilities. Does he realise this? If not, why not? And if he does, how did he have the sheer nerve to impose himself on Danish soil and stay there and, even worse make these pathetically outrageous claims? Or is he so deludedly selfish that no-one else matters, even when he's effectively embezzling their resources? I know what the Danish response to this person and his distended herd ought to be, but I don't know how you'd render 'Go take a running jump'in Danish.

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Jeff Page • Jun 5, 2016 at 08:13

Funny how we ordinary European citizens are subject to a charge of bigamy if we have more than one wife or husband. Now we see the reactions of the lilly livered politicians who are too scared to uphold the laws of their own countries. Instead we have seen more excuses being conjured up to justify their allowing Muslims to act differently! This is yet another divisive policy, and yet we keep getting told that we cannot criticise anything that is directed at certain ethnic groups. We in Europe are once again being taken for fools by a devious interloper determined to undermine western society, and the politicians again just cave in to demands! Once more the deceit will allow our welfare systems to be plundered until cuts will need to be made to indigenous citizens to help pay for the scheming Muslims who will use different names and come up with different stories in order to cheat the system. A system that we as taxpayers paid into, but are slowly but surely being denied access to because there's not enough to go around! You'd have thought that European politicians would have realised by now how this devious method of extracting money in benefits suits the Muslims, but no, they seem to think that this is okay and so allow it to continue. What blatant stupidity, what arrogance, and what an insult to the hard working taxpayers of the countries of Europe and further afield. It's a worldwide disgrace and needs addressing forthwith!

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Solomon Balas • Jun 5, 2016 at 07:55

Beehives support a queen with thousands of workers. The reverse model is shaping up in the West. A dependence culture growing, aging populations, lack of jobs, single mothers : broken societies dragging countries into certain bankruptcy from inability to fund liabilities

Christians are numbed with most losing their faith. They have no future with or without faith if they do not push back starting with breaking the mould at the EU and damage done by Obama's administration. It sadly comes down to bloody civil wars or demise of the West.

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Laura • Jun 5, 2016 at 07:36

"Daham Al Hasan fled from Syria to Denmark, leaving behind his three wives and 20 children." Is this the kind of 'man' that Denmark wants?

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viraj Laura • Jun 9, 2016 at 19:02

He still can marry a Danish woman, who will be the 4th. This will grant him a visa no one can deny. Then He will get the rest of the family. Smart man.

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viraj • Jun 5, 2016 at 07:11

It seems it's mainly the Leftists who want this to be legalized among the refugees who need to be "happily" settled. How are the European statistical data about men versus women? If native (not including Turks and others who came years ago but still they are not natives) Europeans can do the same, and produce more children (which can never happen), then it is safe. Otherwise it will be disastrous. It won't be long before Islamic rule comes to these nations and all including the Leftists are converted to Islam or slaughtered (and people are foolishly worried only about fraud). I fail to understand why do people in Europe STILL vote for these jurassic Leftists so that they have a say? Why there is no will among the white Europeans to once and for all defeat these dreamers and destroyers of everything European? In India they are more or less finished except in Kerala where we have the minorities who are erroneously scared of the majority and vote for these creatures.

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